Major Label Fights Google-ization of Music Industry

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Major Label Fights Google-ization of Music Industry

The latest Listening Post column argues that rather than suing a site (SeeqPod) that brings a Google-like approach to online music, record labels labels could learn from it. I interviewed three SeeqPod users for this piece, but one of the interviews happened too late for the quotes to be used in the story.

Here's what the youngest user I spoke with, Savannah Jade Hunter (age 12, Manitoba, Canada) had to say about SeeqPod, which is apparently popular at her school.

Why she likes the site:

"It's not just rap, it's hip hop, and pop, and alt, and heavy metal. It's everything together. It's just like a fun thing to go on if you're feeling happy, or you're feeling sad, you can just go on there and listen to your favorite tunes."

"Even bands that people never heard... it's there."

What she and her friends will do if the Warner site somehow manages to shut the site down:

"We would probably have to go back to the ones that take like ten minutes for each song to load (Urban DJs and PP2G.tv), and that's why everyone goes on SeeqPod."

"I'd just feel, like, oh my gosh what am I going to listen to now?Because it was really fast, easy access for me, and everyone uses it,and it'd just be bad for everyone."

"If they shut it down, people are going to write back. They're going to get a lot of feedback, the people who shut it down."

This 7th-grader still buys CDs:

"Since I've been on SeeqPod, I've bought six CDs. You know how it's a PodScroller [ed. note: PodCrawler] or something, where it just shows random music? I just put any random music on my list, and I listen to [the songs], and I actually like them so I buy the CDs."